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Tamas Papp  
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 More options Mar 5 2012, 3:10 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Tamas Papp <tkp...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:10:02 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Mon, Mar 5 2012 3:10 am
Subject: Re: rant: LISP is non-functional!

On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:00:18 +0000, Kaz Kylheku wrote:
> (Let us coin a new word: "funperative programming". This is a style
> whereby mutations are restricted to local variables, and data structures
> that are guarnateed not to be shared because they were locally allocated
> in the same scope. Functions written in funperative style appear
> functional to outsiders, but have pragmatic innards.)

This is the style I have been drifting to lately in CL, because I
found it very practical.  Thanks for giving it a name!

Best,

Tamas


 
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